Mandaviya releases guidelines on post-Covid management

Union Health Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Thursday released the National Comprehensive Guidelines on post-Covid management. The guidelines will provide complete post-Covid health care guidance for the long term.  the Union Minister said these modules will provide guidance to doctors and healthcare workers to deal with the issues of long term effects of Covid. We have witnessed the consequences of Post-COVID effect in patients due to taking higher doses of steroids like cases of Mucormycosis. It is important to take medicines, with fewer or negligible side effects. If we are alert beforehand, it will be fruitful in tackling the future consequences of COVID,he said.

This is the first such series of seven modules released in India, providing extensive guidelines for medical fraternity. This includes a module for healthcare providers to deal with mental health, which is of utmost importance. The perceptions related to Post-COVID that are perpetuating in our society like fears, mental health issues resulting due to COVID are important to be tackled. So, it’s important to understand these Post-COVID issues and resolve them. Efforts have been made by resource persons across the country for the management of these post-COVID complications to prepare post COVID sequelae modules. These are very specialized modules prepared by keeping in mind various fields of Healthcare Professionals, Mandaviya said.